Waterproof: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood

Fifty years after an earthen dam collapsed sending a thirty foot wall of raging destruction down on the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Pamela McRae looks back. The flood wiped out Pam's fondest hopes, took the lives of her fiancé and her brother, the sanity of her mother, and, soon after, her father. Left alone to cope with poverty, loneliness, and despair Pam finds a chance to change her life with the arrival of Katya, a poor Hungarian girl running away from an arranged marriage. Katya cares for her mother, so that Pam can go to work for the Johnstown Clarion as a society reporter. When Davy Hughes, Pam's dead fiancé, reappears, instead of being the answer to her prayers, he further complicates her life. Someone is seeking revenge on the owners of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, the Pittsburgh millionaires who owned the failed dam, and Pam thinks Davy might have something to do with it.